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| December 8, 2019
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Foreign Report: Airstrikes Saturday kill 5 pro-Iran fighters in Syria

Five “non-Syrian” soldiers linked to foreign forces supporting the regime in Syria were killed Saturday night in yet another series of airstrikes near the Iraqi border, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported Sunday.

By AFP

 

Air strikes by unidentified warplanes have killed five pro-Iran fighters in Syria’s eastern province of Deir Ezzor near the Iraqi border, a Britain-based war monitor said on Sunday.

The strikes late Saturday targeted “positions of Iranian forces and allied militias” on the edge of the town of Albukamal, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Sunday afternoon.

Israel suspected of airstrikes on Iranian militia in the Al Bukamal region near Iraq-Syria border – Google Maps:IsraelandStuff

“Five non-Syrian fighters were killed,” Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP, without being able to provide their nationalities. Continue Reading »

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| December 5, 2019
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Arab media: Iranian weapons depot destroyed in Syria by IDF

Although no one has taken credit for yesterday’s destruction of an Iranian weapons warehouse on a Syrian airbase, foreign publications have again, as in the past, attributed the airstrike to Israel.
– The IDF doesn’t respond to foreign media accounts.

By Daniel Salami

 

A weapons warehouse belonging to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps in the Al Bukamal region of Syria was hit in an airstrike Wednesday evening, the Saudi news network Al Arabiya reported.

There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries in the attack on an airbase close to Syria’s border with Iraq.

Israel suspected of airstrikes on Iranian militia in the Al Bukamal region near Iraq-Syria border – Google Maps:IsraelandStuff

There was also no claim of responsibility, although foreign publications have often attributed similar strikes in the area to Israel. Continue Reading »

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